Redstar

What films can people watch time and time again without getting bored or losing interest? (At least over 6 times a year)

My list would start with Bullitt, (I must watch this Steve Mqueen classic at least 6 times a year if not more) The Day of the Jackal, Double Indemnity, Zulu, Mr Hulot's Holiday, Long Good Friday, The French Connection

Moor Larkin

The original "Assault on Precinct 13"

ChristineCB

This reminds me of the "300 Favorite Films List" - that thread seemed to beg for dissertations even I couldn't write! (And among my penpals, they KNOW that's saying something!)

MALTESE FALCON. I hardly ever drop in my copy, but when it's on TV and I see any part of it, I'll leave it there. Not every Bogart film gets this. CASABLANCA is a film I watch often but not every time - I think it begs for a greater emotional commitment and apparently I am unwilling to do that always.

Just about any Veronica Lake film.

OPERATION PETTICOAT for some reason. It has an abundance of dumb, uninteresting scenes, but Cary Grant's exasperations make all the slow parts worthwhile. "We sunk a TRUCK!" or his giving away all of Lt Holden's fine things to the Filipino farmer... The breakfast-in-bed scene where Tony Curtis asks, "If we - gulp - can't surface...uh..." and Cary Grant's hand dips down, and then he explodes and is barking orders.

the Doris Day-Rock Hudson pictures, especially the scenes where Tony Randall has a lot of dialog.

AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY, and a lot of James Garner B&W films. I don't know why he's a favorite - I would never list him as a favorite actor, but I like a lot of his films.

VICTOR VICTORIA, too... odd - hmmm - Julie Andrews. James Garner. Hmmm - is there a trend?

WHAT'S UP DOC.

The Ealing comedies. Jack Hawkins war pictures. mAN WHO NEVER WAS, along with your DAY OF THE JACKAL (I don't know why those two films resonate together so well).

Carmel

phyco, Marnie, Shadow of a doubt, Up the Junction, spring and port wine i love these films and could watch them over and over again and never get fed up of them.

Phil Turner

I tend to watch Hitchcock films and musicals over and over again without ever getting bored. The 39 Steps, Suspicion, Strangers on a Train and Marnie are personal favourites. As for musicals, Oliver, The King and I and My Fair Lady never lose their appeal despite numerous viewings. I've also enjoyed Dark Victory and Brief Encounter more times than I care to remember.

I tend to find films which are part of a series easy to watch over and over again. The James Bond, Carry On and Hammer films are so approachable you can just let them flow over you.

As for actors, Michael Caine's finest films never seem to wane despite numerous showings.

Regards
Phil Turner

Crimson

All the b/w films they show in the afternoon on Channel 4 which I don't get to see because I live in Wales and have poxy S4C inflicted on me.

Just to show how slack S4C are, they were showing Went the Day Well? at 3 o'clock in the morning so not having seen the film before I videoed it.
The following evening I switched and the film started, again not having seen the film I was not unconcerned that the opening scenes were without sound
The whole bloody film was without sound because the slackers had pressed the button and gone home without bothering to check and this is one example of many mishaps on S4C, sometimes they just do their own thing like not showing listed films at all!
Films I watch over and over again
Went the Day Well
The Dam Busters
Zulu
Where Eagles Dare
Sink the Bismark
The Colditz Story
National Velvet (light relief)
One of Our Aircraft is Missing
Battle of the River Plate
A Matter of Life and Death
First of the Few
Most of the Ealings
Carry on up the Khyber
Green for Danger
Hue and Cry
Rebecca
Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
Dead of Night

Sgt Dudfoot

The Wicker Man
Ask A Policeman - and most prime Will Hays
The Devil Rides Out
The Ealings
The 39 Steps - any version
Bulldog Jack
Went The Day Well
The Italian Job
Night Of The Demon
Death Line
The Quatermass trilogy
to name a few
Also everytime The Great Escape is on has turned into an event with a group of us happily drinking, whistling and quoting our way through a blissful 3 hours. Refuse to buy it or even tape it, just take it how and when it comes.

knobbykins

What taste,i've got all of these absolue corkers but the ones i HAVE to watch are

ISLAND OF TERROR-don't ask why because i couldn't put into words(now you see why i use a pseudonym as knobbykins is NOT my real name!)

(Or is it?)

DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES-because it's brilliant!

THE LION IN WINTER-simply the best film ever made EVER!The only film whose impact on me doesn't waver a bit.

Anti-distinctly minty....

Moor Larkin

Definitely Zulu as well of course. (I find Italian Job a victim of its own cliches nowadays).

There are some favourite films I wouldn't want to watch repeatedly because I sense over-familiarity would spoil them.

I generally don't watch the same Picture over and over again so I'm trying to think of the ones that I think would stand that sort of treatment.............. I wonder if the central characters have to be especially magnetic, the story profound but not too 'clever-clever' and positively no big twist at or near the end.

I'm thinking...... and wondering.....

Mona Lisa.
Things to do in Denver when you're dead.
The Shootist.
Get Carter.
Night of the Hunter.
Cape Fear (1962)

Crimson

Missed a few
Oh Mr Porter
39 Steps Robert Donat only
The Full Monty (a rare modern one)

knobbykins

I'm thinking...... and wondering.....


Things to do in Denver when you're dead.


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You're the only other person i know of who likes DENVER, most love to slag it off!
But CHRISTOPHER WALKEN is brilliant,as usual,and manages to steal it.

Anti-distinctly minty....

ChristineCB

One of the reasons I hate threads like this is because I end up seeing how few "modern" movies make my Favorites lists, including a "Watch Over & Over" list. If I have a 100 titles that I'll watch over and over, I can't even name one of those made in this century. Pitiful.

Even worse - it looks like I've got plenty of company, from the rest of your lists.

knobbykins

You've jogged my memory,well done!
Forgot to put on my list DAWN OF THE DEAD remake.
I can almost hear the gasps up and down the country,but bear with me.I love the original and was ready to rip into this one with a vengeance but couldn't because being a lover of post apocalyptic films,books and EVEN TV,i just kept thinking just suppose.....and now i can't do without my regular fix of it!

So apart from this i'm in complete agreement,until someone else jogs my terrible,er,um.....

Anti-distinctly minty....

JamesM

Brazil (1985)
Oh Mr Porter (1937)
Passport to Pimlico (1948)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Goodbye Lenin (2003)
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Night of the Demon (1957)
Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
The Captive Heart (1946)
Bone (1972)
Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973)
They Live (1988)
Hell Drivers (1957)
Lifeboat (1944)
The Strawberry Statement (1970)
High Hopes (1988)
Carry On At Your Convenience (1971)
Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
Dawn of the Dead (1985)
Went the Day Well? (1942)

Fellwanderer

Walkabout
The Snow Goose
The Railway Children
AMOLAD
A Canterbury Tale
Went the Day Well?
BLIMP

All the best
FELL

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